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Jazz Punks: Jazz Punks: Smashups
by Glenn Astarita
A homogenous and playfully bastardized take on modern jazz, the Los Angeles-based Jazz Punks offers a rather chic, and youthful blend of jazz, punk-rock and rock on its debut outing. It's an undulating approach and at times, pleasantly schizophrenic by design. Here, electric guitarist Sal Polcino looms as the bridge between the rock and jazz element ...
Stefano Zeni: Passaggi Circolari
by AAJ Italy Staff
Per l'album d'esordio, Stefano Zeni fa le cose in grande. Convoca una manciata di musicisti tra cui spiccano nomi importanti come quello di Ellade Bandini, Guido Bombardieri e Mario Arcari ed incide per YVP, affermata etichetta tedesca. Il violinista e compositore milanese di nascita, bresciano d'adozione (presso il Conservatorio di quella città si è diplomato in ...
Jeff Parker: Bright Light in Winter
by Hrayr Attarian
Chicago-based guitarist Jeff Parker has cut his proverbial teeth with the Association for Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and remains an active member of that group. His own work is very much in the spirit of the AACM's musical philosophy, but enhanced by his unique vision that draws from all sources of improvised music including but ...
Atom™: Winterreise
by AAJ Italy Staff
Che ben due recenti uscite elettroniche facciano esplicito riferimento al “Winterreise" di Franz Schubert è elemento già di per sé piuttosto interessante e indicativo di una attenzione rinnovata verso le suggestioni di un canto romantico che si sbriciola nelle molecole di suono. Accade in Patience (after Sebald) di Caretaker, così come accade in questo omonimo Winterreise ...
Allan Harris & Takana Miyamoto: Convergence
by Dan Bilawsky
The eternal bond between piano and voice in jazz was cemented long before pianist Bill Evans and vocalist Tony Bennett ever took to the studio together, but they elevated this union of sounds to artistic heights ne'er before attained. Bennett and Evans erased the notions of vocals on top and pianist-as-mere-accompanist with The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans ...
Daniel Erdmann & Samuel Rohrer Quartet: How to Catch a Cloud
by AAJ Italy Staff
How to Catch a Cloud è disco discreto, a suo modo raffinato, con più di un riferimento alla musica eurocolta ma fortemente attuale. E con pillole di follia disseminate qua e là che ne aumentano il fascino ed il piacere della scoperta. Prendete il violoncello di Vincent Courtois dall'accentuato respiro accademico ma capace di incursioni sorprendenti, ...
Mike Reed: People Places and Things: Clean On The Corner
by Mark Corroto
The fourth installment of drummer Mike Reed's People, Place & Things project departs from his original modus operandi of paying tribute to the Chicago jazz and improvised scene circa 1954-1960. Despite this, Reed could not divorce himself of his heritage; Clean On the Corner bristles with the legacy of Chicago's broad sounds and the inspiration of ...
Brandon Wright: Journeyman
by Bruce Lindsay
Beware of album titles that seem to damn with faint praise. Although saxophonist Brandon Wright takes inspiration for the title of his second album from the words of novelist Cormac McCarthy, Journeyman is a term that usually conjures up an image of a reliable, hard-working, solid but uninspiring type of person. All admirable qualities, of course, ...
Wadada Leo Smith's Mbira: Dark Lady of the Sonnets
by Dave Wayne
Trumpet and drums--a truly primal combination--are joined by the delicately trilling, archaic and arcane sounds of the Chinese lute or pipa on Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Wadada Leo Smith's musical venture with a new trio, Mbira. At age 70, Smith's torrid creative pace is matched only by the forged-steel strength of his trumpet playing. Percussionist ...
MDI Ensemble: Sylvano Bussotti: Autotono
by AAJ Italy Staff
La recente intervista all'MDI ensemble permette di ritornare su Atotono, un CD pubblicato dalla Stradivarius con musiche di Sylvano Bussotti registrate dall'Ensemble nel corso di una visita del compositore presso l'Istituto Culturale di Tokyo per una sua mostra pittografica (2008). Riprodotte nella loro veste live, le tredici tracce propongono un ventaglio di composizioni da camera di ...
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